thanatos0708

2 or 3 kids and hopefully the director or vp with an M&A team. You should join the r/financialcareers discord- i think you'd enjoy it. We have ~5000 members who are all interested in finance or work in finance in hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corp dev, treasury, corp strat, fp&a, wealth management, asset management, equity research, and several other roles. We also have a few RSers https://discord.gg/k6keQPH

I was told by several people to quit my job and focus on joining the PGA Tour... I thought the risk was too great...

Stay up late and procrastinating

Depending on the job, it is your life... I work in finance doing mergers and acquisitions, and I'm lucky to have a great WLB.. I work 60 hours at most.. My friends, who have the same job, have weeks where they are easily working 100+ hours a week. You hear stories of people dying from stress because t hey had to pull all-nighters for 2 or 3 days in a row or working 120 hours a week for multiple weeks in a row. To them, working 80 hours a week is great, and 60 is heaven... The hours are just as bad in the UK, Canada, and Australia too for these roles. People like to brag about it, but honestly, it's nothing to brag about... The pay for M&A is fantastic in the USA (not so much in the UK) but you have to sell your soul for it. After 2 years, you look sick and you look like you've aged faster than you should have...

The unknown. Things like dark water creep me out because I can't see below the surface, walking into dark places, doing something new for the first time without knowing what I'm doing, anything that could come off as paranormal (no one understands what is exactly going on). I guess heights are another one, but eventually I get to a point where I'm so high that I stop being scared because subconsciously I accept that if I fall then I'm going to die and there is nothing I can do.

Lol who hasn't? As an identical twin, my brother and I would swap IDs and take tests for each other in college...

Your buddy didn't understand the game. You need to know the signs of when to get out of a momentum game, and one of those signs is when brokerages stop allowing you to make transactions on a specific stock. The goal is to be the first one at the party and not be the last one there. If you get involved in momentum strategies then you're swimming in a pool filled with sharks and piranhas and you will be eaten alive if you don't know what you're doing.

As a fellow CFA Charterholder, he makes me proud! The name and his charter go so well together! (the charter is about determining value of investments, and how to spot mispricing)

Sure, I can do that if I can figure out how to attach an excel file.

20 - spend it on some golf stuff 200 -bank 2,000 - bank 2,000,000 - put it in my ira and the rest in my brokerage and try to back door some into my ira? Whatever it is, it'll get invested and I'd continue working becauss that's not enough for me to retire right away.

Golf, finance, investing, and allen edmonds

Yes, multiple

Dual citizenship. My wife has family on Syros too, so we know the locals and were able to cut out the middle man and talk down the seller more. Things there are more about having relationships. The real issue there is taxes... we took out a loan to help, but I'm not concerned. I' created a spreadsheet that models out all of the details (expected rent/expenses/depreciation/interest expense/taxes)

deadlines, promotions/raises, and wanting to be the best at whatever I'm doing (runescape not included)

I'm very serious about this. Early in my career, I started out as an investment analyst where I was responsible for finding new investment opportunities for clients (yes, I looked at bitcoin when it was around ~$100-$200), and managing client portfolios. Today, I value companies and attempt to buy them to help my current company grow. I am a Chartered Financial Analyst, and my expertise is in energy, so I'm always valuing energy companies in my free time and looking for good investment opportunities... If you have any investment questions, feel free to ask. Right now I'm heavily invested in airlines (I bought back in March), tech, and other growth stocks. I'm up 60% since march, so I'm not complaining. I also recently bought a house in Syros, Greece as an investment property/vacation home... We'll see how that goes.